“It must be hard to read,” remarks the woman sitting across from me on a flight when she spies the title of the book in my hand.
Yes, Our Bodies Their Battlefield is hard going. But it should be essential reading. This retelling of some of the world’s worst wars highlights a dark seam of human history suppressed by shame, impunity and the unwillingness of so many even to listen to horrific accounts of systemic mass rape. Even more, there is a shocking failure to do enough to stop it – to this day.
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